I've owns singles and multis, detached, semi-detached, condos, commerical, vacant land, scattered lots, farms, woodland, and other real estate. 

I have a few rentals scattered around the U.S.

I know I sound a little scattered, but bestway is almost passive (except for the crazy amount of work upfront), my goal for my wholesale business is to just do my morning meetings, tell them what to offer, and weekly motivation + coaching.

I don't have an apartment deal that I'm currently working on, so for this thread, I was using a real example that my team is working on here and now; which is a neighborhood of 51 townhouses we've picked up, and are operating them like an apartment complex, because that's what we do.We don't go around buying up single units, or scattered portfolios of SFH.

I'm looking for something other than my binder with scattered papers to help me with my 4 units.

I agree with Chris, I can't see it happening across multiple developments.If it were me, I would think about selling the whole lot or at least the ones in scattered developments.

They have their properties scattered about in various holding companies like AMH 2014-3 BORROWER LLC (296 units.)

Just went to boot camp graduation at Great Lakes a couple weeks ago. 900 new recruits every Friday, quite a ceremony.If you can swing it, buying a house at every duty station, then keeping the house and renting when the orders come, makes a nice supplemental retirement plan.I know several military that have houses scattered across the country.One year I was at Wright Pat in November, and it was the coldest Nov I can remember.

@Michael SokolskiI own several properties scattered throughout the valley - singles and multis, and have learned a lot about the peculiarities one faces when buying here.I may sell one or two - feel free to hit me up if you're interested ..or to chat

Theres all these different ways to find "motivated sellers", but most of them are not worth putting your time in because theres too few sellers to be found, so therefore youre scattered trying 20 different niches.